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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. I guess I wasn't thinking about tablets or phones when I did it because I don't have one. I actually took your formatting from one of your other threads and altered it accordingly until it fit my screen perfectly. If there is one single more character on any line it will wrap.

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This will be a "problem" once we get to week 10, but it's easy enough to just shave another letter off of the days of the week. Instead of just using the abbreviations I had just shortened them down enough to make everything fit.


You're saying the green and red don't show up well on a handheld device though?

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Feedback: with a black background such as on this site, a more vibrant color set can help. Instead of "green" perhaps "lime" or "55ff00" color. Instead of "red" perhaps "crimson" or "ff0055" color.

In this quoted post from 14 Jan, on my handheld device the 2nd table work-wraps. But on your other posts, starting 17 Jan, I don't get word-wrap, the table just continues off the page for the last 2 columns of data. I don't know how you did this, what was different. Perhaps this post with a change of font size mid-post is treated different than those without font size changed mid-post. Or something. On a handheld, turning it portrait or landscape makes the auto-sizing jump some. To combat this, and to help get the screen-sizing function to give the maximum readable image fitted to screen, I apply one line in the designated font and size to all "X"s, for the length that works best - and I state that this is "display stabilization row". With your TV monitor, this is likely not an issue, nor can you really adjust for it or tune it right.



I see now that the red shows up well here in bold on monitor, but on my handheld it still is not as vibrant as the others.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... forget about any of the earlier tables...

Does this one show up right on your display? (This is the template that I've been using for a while now)

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B.O DAYS = Day of the week / which week by number
T # = Number of theaters shown
GrP T = Gross per theater

TROSw = The Rise of Skywalker

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I need to double quote the remainder, just so I can see what I wrote.

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I take your meaning on the "lime" font. It does look more bold on my monitor, although I never had problems reading the "green" either. But again, I could see how the green would be hard to see on a small handheld device.


When you brought it up, I remembered that I do often change the text size in my browser to make it smaller since I have a larger monitor. At first, I thought this might be the problem, but I brought up this thread in another browser that I never use and that has the standard size unchanged, and although the size looks to be a bit different between the two windows, neither one word wraps to the next line or gets "jailbroken" off the side like when people are quoting stuff with large images or videos.





BTW... Updated the table with the weekend numbers for Episode 9.

Neglecting to make a massive cut in theaters showing it this week might actually have been the right move... especially in light of Birds of Prey tanking as hard as it did.

Episode 9 just barely managed to eek out a Million bucks on Saturday night, and I'm going to come right out and say the only reason that it did was because it was playing at 336 more theaters than Joker was on the same night.

So, because of this decision, it narrowly avoids being the first of the two to have an entire 3-day sub $1 Million per night weekend, and this will be a milestone they actually share together. And even though it still got trounced by Joker's numbers, it did actually gain a bit of ground all three nights comparatively speaking from the previous weekend.

Because of the fact that Birds of Prey is R rated on top of the fact that it is just awful, Episode 9 might just manage to stay above $100 per theater per night during the week as well since there were no new movies for the week that anybody was excited about.



It will be interesting to see if they cut the number of theaters mid week like they did for Joker or if they just let it ride.





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I changed the color for the amount of theaters showing on Wednesday and Thursday night to Orange to make that pop out a bit more since it's so out of the ordinary. For some reason, I couldn't just "bold" them like I usually do in posts. I'm not sure if there's some conflict with the font code or what.

BTW... If you want to see how I formatted the table and sized it, JSF, all you have to do is quote my post and you can see any of the code that doesn't get displayed in the final post. That's how I got the code off of your tables.

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Well, this is goofy. I had thought I could see the 4,40 in the first line of the table before the digits disappeared. But now I only get to $89,615,28 before they vanish. No wrapping.
As you know, this also means that all of the text that you post in that same post also vanishes out of the window.

Yes, I had already looked at the command syntax you had used for the tables, and I had not seen any difference. Which is why I mentioned that they appear different to me, and I didn't know why.

That is interesting about the bold. I had thought I had played with that in The Thread Of Font Colors, but maybe I forgot.
Maybe Font Face doesn't allow bold.
Or maybe just not Courier New.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Just one more week and it will.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

It will also benefit from a larger Box Office on Monday than usual because of the holiday. It will be interesting to see if this additional revenue will be enough to maybe eek out one more per-day win for Episode 9 or not. If the ratio of Friday-to-Monday holiday weekends in the past for the flick hold true for this weekend, it will probably out show Joker on Monday by around $200k.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: (on February 16th)

There's still almost zero chance that it will even get close to sub $100 per theater per night average this week, given the amount of theaters they cut. With Birds of Prey being R rated and wildly unpopular, that's not going to hurt Episode 9. Sonic is doing much better than expected though, and is family friendly fare. Word of mouth about how good the movie is after the luke warm reception from access-media shill critics may explain Episode 9's sudden unexpected southward Sunday night turn.

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Originally posted by second:
What Star Wars 9 could have been. Let’s read through the full script of Colin Trevorrow’s Star Wars: Episode IX.
https://winteriscoming.net/2020/02/16/can-now-read-colin-trevorrow-scr
ipt-star-wars-episode-ix-duel-of-the-fates/

This script did not get made because of money. It would have cost BIG money, as significant amount as was spent on Star Wars Rogue One to reincarnate long dead Peter Cushing. Who died before Episode 9 could be made? Carrie Fisher is who, two weeks after this script was finished. Rather than have Carrie Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, play Princess Leia with the help of some computer special effects to make Billie look exactly like Carrie, the Disney Company threw away a nearly perfect script and fired its perfectly good director. It was cheaper going that direction rather than trying to do what was expensively done with Peter Cushing on Rogue One.

Disney recreated young Princess Leia for Rogue One and could have done it again for Old Princess Leia in order to shoot the perfectly good script written around the Princess. But Disney decided it would cost too much.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by whozit:

Her family would not allow a CGI of her for Ep. 9, plus using a CGI Fisher so soon after her death would have been a disaster.

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https://variety.com/2019/film/news/game-of-thrones-creators-star-wars-
trilogy-exit-12033865901/

The guys who screwed up the final season of Game of Thrones are out at Lucasfilm, good. The bad news is STAR WARS will now likely go the way of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. The fandom just wants Jar Jar Abrams to drag episode 9 across the finish line so we can then forget about the last three films and pretend they never happed.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It wasn't just Princess Leia/Carrie Fisher that was responsible for the script change.

Rian Johnson was fired, and they didn't want his woke shit that completely derailed Jar Jar's first movie.


There was zero plan going into this, and the movies reflect that perfectly. If they're saying anything to the contrary now, it's damage control and lies. Everybody involved should be fired.

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Her family would not allow a CGI of her for Ep. 9, plus using a CGI Fisher so soon after her death would have been a disaster.

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May I quote you back to yourself? The first thing you wrote on this thread:

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https://variety.com/2019/film/news/game-of-thrones-creators-star-wars-
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The guys who screwed up the final season of Game of Thrones are out at Lucasfilm, good. The bad news is STAR WARS will now likely go the way of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. The fandom just wants Jar Jar Abrams to drag episode 9 across the finish line so we can then forget about the last three films and pretend they never happed.

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It sounds like Disney created a disaster by waiting 8 months after Princess Leia died to finally decide it would throw away a perfect screenplay that just so happened to need Princess Leia for a few critical scenes, and then Disney rushed to write a crappy script to replace what was foolishly thrown away. What Disney should have done is offer the Princess's survivors $10 million to allow her likeness or else Disney should have recast the role of Princess Leia. Billie Catherine Lourd, Carrie Fisher's daughter and only child, would have been perfect as the recast Princess Leia.

As a bonus, Disney would not need to order Carrie Fisher to lose 35 to 45 pounds before filming begins. Instead, Disney could have put some weight on Billie Lourd by padding her costume and gave her a gray wig to wear. Look at pictures of Billie and Carrie in their Star Wars costumes: www.google.com/search?q=carrie+fisher+daughter
Billie could easily pass as Carrie with a little aging makeup. Using the daughter as the Princess would have given the movie more resonance about the passing of time and the inevitability of death for Jedi at War.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by whozit:

I stand by what I wrote, Disney just wanted Jar Jar to drag that P.O.S. across the finish line. Disney and Lucasfilm knew ep 9 was an awful flick, that's why they did all those reshoots last summer. Disney and Lucasfilm doesn't care about the Fandom, we know this by the way they treated fans after their negative reaction to ep.8.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sounds like they're all a bunch of highly overpaid shills gambling with money that isn't theirs.

Or you have no clue what you're talking about.

A little of column A, a little of column B.


At the end of the day, Rise of Skywalker wasn't the problem. The Last Jedi was.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're missing the point.

A lot of people didn't bother seeing Rise of Skywalker because of how bad The Last Jedi was, and how bad and woke Solo was.

This was even more true in places like China than it was here in the states where it had a huge impact.




One thing that is abundantly clear is putting a "progressive" agenda in movies is a surefire way to lose money.

Their jobs might be a little bit easier when gambling with other people's money if they finally start learning that lesson.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're missing the point.

A lot of people didn't bother seeing Rise of Skywalker because of how bad The Last Jedi was, and how bad and woke Solo was.

This was even more true in places like China than it was here in the states where it had a huge impact.




One thing that is abundantly clear is putting a "progressive" agenda in movies is a surefire way to lose money.

Their jobs might be a little bit easier when gambling with other people's money if they finally start learning that lesson.

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The real point is that Star Wars is a fairy tale, something that Hans Christian Andersen would write, and an adventure story, something that Edgar Rice Burroughs would write, and most Hollywood writers can not write either and won't admit they can't. There are even fewer writers who can melt the two kinds, fairy tale and adventure story, into one story. Jon Favreau can. You can see his work on The Mandalorian. Or you can see Star Wars movies written by people who should not be writing Star Wars.
www.imdb.com/title/tt8111088/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Rise of Skywalker wasn't the problem. It was simply a cowardly half-measure that tried to bring back old fans and please the woke idiots at the same time. You can't do both. So it failed with everyone.

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Rise of Skywalker wasn't the problem. It was simply a cowardly half-measure that tried to bring back old fans and please the woke idiots at the same time. You can't do both. So it failed with everyone.

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What was wrong is that the excellent script for "Duel of the Fates" was not chosen over the piece of crap script "The Rise of Skywalker". Whoever was doing the choosing couldn't tell the difference between a good story and a Star Wars parody.

The first 5 minutes of "The Rise of Skywalker" is a ridiculous start. Kylo Ren murders 50 people to get the device showing him where the Emperor is, flies across the Universe, marches up to the Emperor with his light-saber, then doesn't cut off the Emperor's head. That scene does not work since Kylo Ren stops killing for no damn reason. The whole movie is full of no damn reason for what anybody does. It is a completely forgettable mess, unlike my favorite Star Wars, The Mandalorian, where every scene in the first 3 episodes is memorable and everything makes sense because it is done for a good reason.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by second:
6ix, Disney isn't deliberately trying to offend you.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

They'd better purge their woke people from the crew going forward if they ever want to make that money back and actually start showing a profit.

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They'd better purge their woke people from the crew going forward if they ever want to make that money back and actually start showing a profit.

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You keep complaining about the politics, but what is wrong is that the people making decisions can NOT tell the difference between good scripts and crap. In the finished movie, they can tell, but not at the script-only stage. Really, they can't tell from a script. Once the movie is made, they are forced to pretend it is great. It has nothing to do with woke people.

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Originally posted by whozit:
Just when I thought this thread was going to die I find this,

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-palpatine-clone-rise-skywalker-confir
m-novel

So Darth Vader was the chosen one? Rey killed a knock off? Way too little, way too late, this will just make the fandom more angry. Disney STAR WARS will be remember as a joke, they should quit while they're behind.

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Originally posted by second:
1) After 5 minutes of watching The Rise of Skywalker, I knew Disney had badly screwed up by bringing a dead thing, smelly-rotting-disgusting Mister Emperor Palpatine, back to temporary life so that Disney could kill the thing at the end of the movie.

2) Months later, after reading the excellent script Disney started preparations to film, then stopped work, I really knew Disney had screwed up:
www.mediafire.com/file/qqz16qtvvwvv86t/Star_Wars_Episode_IX_Duel_of_th
e_Fates.pdf/file

3) But the true depths of Disney's screwed up movie were revealed tonight.

The Emperor in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Was a Clone, According to the Novelization

By Matthew Dessem
March 01, 2020 9:50 PM

https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-palpatin
e-clone-novelization.html

When the news broke that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker would feature the return of Emperor Palpatine, it didn’t take long for Star Wars superfans to come up with a plausible backstory to explain how he got there. Here’s the basic timeline: A few years after Palpatine fell down a shaft on the second Death Star during the Battle of Endor at the end of Return of the Jedi, a growing ethnofascist movement on Earth figured out how to harness fan culture and the rise of social media to recruit and train a new generation of Nazi stooges. After honing their powers during Gamergate, this ragtag band of white supremacist morons turned their attention on the Star Wars franchise, and were such relentless shitheads about the whole thing that they convinced senior management at the Walt Disney Company that Star Wars fans were liddle widdle babies who just wanted to be told the exact same stories about the exact same space wizards over and over and over again, which made Emperor Palpatine’s resurrection at the hands of Sith cultists on the planet Exegol more or less inevitable.

The definitive explanation for Sheev Palpatine’s long journey from “middle-aged senator from the Planet Naboo” to “physical embodiment of a corporation that has run out of ideas” is found in Rae Carson’s upcoming novel The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (Star Wars).


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second seems to think that the alternate version of Episode 9 was a magical machine that can put shit back into a horse.

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WAIT!! Does this mean Rey is the grand daughter of...a clone? AHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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Second seems to think that the alternate version of Episode 9 was a magical machine that can put shit back into a horse.

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Will you never stop bitching about female Jedi Knights? Disney had a perfectly good script, Duel_of_the_Fates. They didn't make that version of Star Wars 9 because Carrie Fisher died, but has Disney not heard of recasting a role when an actor is unavailable? Does Disney not know about how to make the replacement actor look like the character? Did Disney really need to wait 8 months to decide what to do about it? The Disney decision-makers are idiots and it is not because they added women warriors to Star Wars. They are idiots because Duel_of_the_Fates was a good script and The Rise of Skywalker was a crap script, but Disney picked the crap script to make -- which makes Disney look like idiots.

www.mediafire.com/file/qqz16qtvvwvv86t/Star_Wars_Episode_IX_Duel_of_th
e_Fates.pdf/file

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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